Rosalind Krauss

The Ohio State Marching Band performs tributes to sci-fi films. Visually the band resembles ASCII Star Wars, but with references to every instance of sci fi in culture represented by tubas, trumpets, cannons, and fireworks. This is the kind of discipline and spirit I like to see representing America. [Laughing Squid]

On this week’s episode of Hello Kitty Cribs, watch a middle-age interior designer give a tour of his multi-room Hello Kitty shrine. [BBC]

“The abiding cliché of online sociality holds that one’s identity online is made up not of character traits…but of one’s likes and dislikes and the friends and acquaintances one is connected to.” Melissa Gronlund on how Rosalind Krauss’s theory of video art and narcissism stacks up with today’s Internet-inspired video. [Afterall]

London report: after a week-long protest in front of Parliament Square this past October, Occupy protesters are set to return in late November. For that next iteration, they’ve set up an open call for artwork. [Samia Gallery]

If you’re living in London, or anywhere else in Europe for that matter, expect heightened security checks at airports. Starting today. Fun! [The Washington Post]

“We’re pooping all wrong. And the toilets are to blame.” On the poor design of toilets. [Pacific Standard]

N00dies of us all over the internet this weekend. It has to do with art criticism. We’ll explain later. [Facebook]

Now there are lasers to shoot down drones. Where does it end? [The Verge]

For the journos: New York Magazine’s Vulture is looking for a senior editor. 2+ years experience editing online, and a deep love of television are required. [Mediabistro via Gabrielle Gantz on Twitter]

OH COME ON, ARTNET. These misleading titles, like the latest “Duane Michaels Shot Warhol, and Took Off,” are getting ridiculous. Click through to read a blurb about two fairly banal snapshots. [artnet News]

This is amazing. Art Basel posts the transcripts for all exchanges that take place in their “Conversation” series. This one includes a conversation with Ai WeiWei and Philip Tinari from 2009, and a discussion on the future of museums with directors Marc Mayer, Timothy Rub, Osvaldo SÃ¡nchez, Philippe Vergne, Lynn Zelevansky. These documents need to be made into a book. [Art Basel]

Triple Candie produced an exhibition positing that the Arte Povera movement never existed, approved by its art fair venue at Artissima, and then cancelled after some collectors raised an eyebrow or two. Artissima claims the exhibition wasn’t intellectually rigorous enough in a statement published on Artforum, a rationale I never see museums or galleries offer up for cancellation let alone an art fair! [Triple Candie]

“The modern artist must invent new mediums, taking on new supports for his or her work.” Andrew Russeth paraphrasing Rosalind Krauss. Must. Read. [GalleristNY]

Hrag Vartanian reports on the latest wave of protests directed at the Sotheby’s Art Handler lock out. Sotheby’s needs to do the right thing already and pay their art handlers more money. [Hyperallergic]

This IMG MGMT essay takes hundreds of image files found on Paul’s backups (see if you can spot Dragan Espenschied and Cory Arcangel) and uses them to make fun of Lev Manovich, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, and art blogs.